Written in English for the purpose of brushing up my English skills. I'd like to make friends with someone who lives in Estonskaya, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Frivolous comments aren't welcome on this blog.

Mar 13, 2017

Bus Tour in Georgetown

Georgetown, one of the listed cities on World Heritage. I wanted to walk around the historic spots, but our bus didn't stop at those places. At first, our bus stopped by a market in the busiest street. There was lots of sea food and meat exposed to the open air. I wondered if they didn't get rotten rapidly, and this question was shared by other tourists. The atmosphere in the street was just the same as that of Malacca that I had visited last summer. St. George's Church, the oldest British church in Southeast Asia, stood in the city, but I was just able to see it from the bus. It seemed to have a memorial canopy in honor of Francis Light's arrival on the island. I wasn't able to understand the reason why he had won the respect of citizens in spite of conquering them, and I wanted to examine what he had done on the island. His tomb was in the Christian Cemetery near the pier, but I wasn't able to visit it due to the restriction of time. The bus stopped at a famous Hindu temple, which didn't attract me at all. Something was wrong with JTB tour company. Arrange other options to visit historic places, please. Then, I was taken to Penang State Museum. The exhibition was set mainly about the period of British times, but there were a few descriptions about only 4 years of Japanese times. I didn't have enough time to read them through, and the tour guide's explanation was superficial. The guy who had led me in Malacca last summer was really great, but this time, I wasn't satisfied with the guidance. The funniest stuff that I found in the exhibition was the description on the shameful custom of foot binding in the Qing dynasty. Look at the last picture but one below. Women in the Qing dynasty were forced to stay lifelong in the house just as if they were chained and were treated like slaves. Foot binding was the invention for women not to flee. On the other hand, high heels were designed to make women look more beautiful. They shouldn't be confused. Their excuse for cruel food binding looked ugly to me. The last picture was shot through the window just before leaving the tour bus. Do you notice a white sailboat?